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Midwifery, Rebozo massage

Are you pregnant?

Posted by Ann Randrup on 2012.11.14

Hello, my name is Ann and I am the person behind MyBestTreat. I would like to welcome you to this first feature which is about pregnancy and birth. Firstly I write about this because it is a turbulent time in a woman’s life where new needs can occur. Secondly because I gave birth to a baby daughter a few months ago and I were quite surprised how challenging the entire process was for both body and mind.

Throughout the pregnancy I re-lived all the issues I have ever had in my life – physical and emotional. Again and again I felt I was completely back to scratch; when problems I though I had dealt with and put behind me suddenly reappeared. My allergies came back, my digestion problems, my anxiety - and all the conflicts I have ever had with my husband came back with a new intensity. So we had to go back into couple’s therapy and I had to see my homeopath, my healer and my massage therapist over again. On top of that I experienced new issues: I had a painful pelvic instability in the 3rd month of my pregnancy, I had water in my body, and a feeling of being trapped – just to name a few. It took me quite some time to find the people who could help me with all the new problems. But after a month of intense search I found someone who could treat my unstable pelvis – and it was quite a relief to be able to walk again.

Then of course there was all the considerations about the actual birth. Should the delivery be in water ...